Foresight
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Classification:
1 W-Y[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Very Early
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Guy L. Wilson

b 1885 d 1962

Broughshane, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland

Guy L. Wilson
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, before 1944
Awards:

AM(e) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition

Qualified as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1945.AM(e) 1945; 
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Seed Parent: 
Bonython 1 W-Y 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
King Alfred x Boswin
Bonython
Pollen Parent: 
open pollinated
Chromosomes:
28
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
4 times as seed, 2 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 100 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, milk or amber white, spreading, plane, sometimes a little concave at apex, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, a little twisted; corona cylindrical, brilliant yellow, lightly frilled, with rim dentate and neatly flanged.

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ForesightForesight, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1944
Photo #41953 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsForesightForesight, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1944
Photo #41952 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsForesightForesight, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1944
Photo #21967 Heath Family Archives, USAForesightForesight, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1944
Photo #12346 Sara Van Beck, USAForesightForesight, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1944
Photo #12345 Sara Van Beck, USAForesightForesight, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1944
Photo #12344 Sara Van Beck, USAForesightForesight, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1944
Photo #12264 Ian Scroggy, Northern IrelandForesightForesight, 1 W-Y, Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland, 1944
Photo #12263 Ian Scroggy, Northern Ireland